ISLAMABAD, Oct 23 (Reuters) - A bomb blast at a Shi'ite
Muslim procession in Pakistan's Sindh province for the Shi'ite
holiday of Ashura killed 16 people on Friday and wounded at
least 40, local Geo TV reported.

The blast was the second to hit the Ashura festivities in
two days and came hours after a radical Sunni Muslim group
threatened continued sectarian violence during the holiday.

Geo TV quoted a local police official as saying that 16 were
dead and 40 wounded in the early evening blast.

"It was a suicide attack as the head and some other body
parts of the suicide bomber were found at the site," another
Pakistani journalist in Jacobabad, Ghani Baksh, quoted police
official Zafar Iqbal Awan as saying.
(Writing by Kay Johnson; Editing by Kevin Liffey)